Websites of the Week
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| Each week we examine ten websites worth a visit. | |
| Especially for Students . . . | |
| Up to Ten: Kids Games | |
| URL: http://www.uptoten.com/kids/kidsgames-home.html | |
| Puzzles, races, mazes, and more. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 1-5 | |
| Free Online Games and Puzzles from Thinks.com | |
| URL: http://thinks.com/games/ | |
| "Challenging and addictive games and puzzles for you to play online in your web browser." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 3-5 | |
| Into the Wardrobe: A C.S. Lewis Website | |
| URL: http://cslewis.drzeus.net/ | |
| Biography, forum, papers, links, and more. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 4-12. | |
| Showing Evidence | |
| URL: http://www97.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/ShowingEvidence | |
| "The Showing Evidence Tool includes a collection of resources for creating structured arguments for research, debate, and analysis in the classroom. It includes an interactive, online workspace to help teachers and students discuss and collaborate as they evaluate claims and evidence. Students in any subject can use the tool to create a claim or hypothesis, collect and evaluate evidence, debate differences, clarify and organize ideas, and reach conclusions." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 6 and up. | |
| National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: Data Analysis and Probability | |
| URL: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_5.html | |
| ". . . a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis)." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: Pre-K-12. | |
| Especially for Teachers . . . | |
| Enviornmental Education in the Classroom | |
| URL: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/kids/teachers/classroom.html | |
| ". . . links to resources that will help make environmental education interesting for both you and your group!" | |
| Paper Plate Education | |
| URL: http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/ | |
| "Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. This website promotes innovative hands-on activities that you can experience across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price—all with common paper plates." | |
| Media and Internet Education Resources | |
| URL: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm | |
| ". . . practical teaching units and classroom activities for media education?" | |
| Artyfactory | |
| URL: http://www.artyfactory.com/ | |
| Art lessons, links, and more. | |
| LitQuotes | |
| URL: http://www.litquotes.com/ | |
| "If you love literature or quotes this is the place for you! This literary reference site features quotations from the great works of literature. You can search for quotes in a number of different ways." | |
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